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Jonathan Blanks joins Aaron and Trevor to talk about the relationship between African-Americans and the state.
Besides the horrendous affront to human rights that was American slavery, black people in America have been and continue to be singled out for “special treatment” by the government in other ways, too: the federal drug war, minimum wage laws, the failure of public schooling, licensing restrictions on opening businesses, gun control laws, the indignity of welfare, and many more. So why aren’t there more black libertarians?
Show Notes and Further Reading
Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop (book)
David Weigel, “Ruth Marcus, David Brooks, and Reefer Madness” (article)
Tim Lynch, Police Misconduct: The Assault on Civil Liberties (video)
Associated Press, “SWAT team raids Md. mayor’s home, kills 2 dogs” (article)
Jonathan Blanks is a Research Associate at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies.
Aaron Powell founded Libertarianism.org. He is now the host of (Re)Imagining Liberty, a podcast about the case for radical freedom.
Trevor Burrus was a research fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. His research interests include constitutional law, civil and criminal law, legal and political philosophy, legal history, and the interface between science and public policy.
He is the editor of A Conspiracy against Obamacare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty (Cato, 2017). Burrus holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a JD from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He also contributed a chapter to Libertarianism.org’s Visions of Liberty.